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CMU Had a Great Presence at CHI 2009

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Authors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. They presented 26 full papers, with six of these nominated for Best Paper Awards.

The Best Paper nominees included a study of street sweepers as platforms for studying air quality by HCII Professor Eric Paulos, a study of the design of educational games for rural schoolchildren in India by HCII Professor Matthew Kam, 2 papers on human computation games by CSD Professor Luis von Ahn (1 each with students Edith Law and Severin Hacker, and 2 papers on supporting usability through explanations in context-aware applications by HCII Professor Anind Dey (1 with student Brian Lim).

CMU authors were also well represented in other types of content. This includes 4 Notes, 3 Courses, 1 Interactivity Showcase, 6 Work-In-Progress Posters, 2 Special Interest Groups, 3 Panels, 1 Invited Discussion, 5 Workshops, 2 Communities, 1 Exhibit, 1 Case Study, 1 Video Showcase, and 9 Workshop papers.

CMU was also represented well in the organization of the CHI 2009 program, with Professor Scott Hudson being the Papers Co-Chair, Professor Bonnie John being the Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair and Engineering Community Co-Chair, Professor Mark Baskinger being the Design Community Co-Chair, Professor Jodi Forlizzi being the Papers Chair of the Design SubCommittee, and Professors Laura Dabbish, Anind Dey, Sara Kiesler and John Zimmerman serving as Associate Chairs on the Papers Program Committee.

Details for all of our CHI 2009 participation follow:

Full Papers: 26, including 6 Best Paper nominations

  • A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action
    Paul M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, Alan Mainwaring, Chris Myers, Eric Paulos, Sushmita Subramanian, Allison Woodruff
    Best Paper nominee
  • Real Life Challenges in Access-control Management
    Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Robert W. Reeder, Michael K. Reiter, Kami Vaniea
  • Acquiring a Professional Second Life: Problems and Prospects for the Use of Virtual Worlds in Business
    Katherine Bessiere, Jason B. Ellis, Wendy A. Kellogg
  • Strategy-Based Instruction: Lessons Learned in Teaching the Effective and Efficient Use of Computers
    Suresh Bhavnani, Frederick A. Peck, Frederick Reif
  • Feed Me: Motivating Newcomer Contribution in Social Network Sites
    Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas Lento
  • Support for Context-Aware Intelligibility and Control
    Anind K. Dey, Alan Newberger
    Best Paper nominee
  • Timing Is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online Privacy Indicators
    Serge Egelman, Janice Y. Tsai, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti
  • UbiGreen: Investigating a Mobile Tool for Tracking and Supporting Green Transportation Habits
    Jon Froehlich, Tawanna Dillahunt, Predrag Klasnja, Jennifer Mankoff, Sunny Consolvo, Beverly Harrison, James A. Landay
  • Matchin: Eliciting User Preferences with an Online Game
    Severin Hacker, Luis von Ahn
    Best Paper nominee
  • Texture Displays: A Passive Approach to Tactile Presentation
    Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson
  • mimir: A Market-Based Real-Time Question and Answer Service
    Gary Hsieh, Scott Counts
  • Self-Interruption on the Computer: A Typology of Discretionary Task Interleaving
    Jing Jin, Laura A. Dabbish
  • Designing Digital Games for Rural Children: A Study of Traditional Village Games in India
    Matthew Kam, Akhil Mathur, Anuj Kumar, John Canny
    Best Paper nominee
  • User Experience Over Time: An Initial Framework
    Evangelos Karapanos, John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, Jean-Bernard Martens
  • Simulated Augmented Reality Windshield Display as a Cognitive Mapping Aid for Elder Driver Navigation
    SeungJun Kim, Anind K. Dey
  • Coordination in Collective Intelligence: The Role of Team Structure and Task Interdependence
    Aniket Kittur, Bryant Lee, Robert E. Kraut
  • Finding Causes of Program Output with the Java Whyline
    Andrew J. Ko, Brad A. Myers
  • Input-Agreement: A New Mechanism for Collecting Data Using Human Computation Games
    Edith Law, Luis Von Ahn
    Best Paper nominee
  • Why and Why Not Explanations Improve the Intelligibility of Context-Aware Intelligent Systems
    Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey, Daniel Avrahami
    Best Paper nominee
  • Toward a Unified Theory of the Multitasking Continuum: From Concurrent Performance to Task Switching, Interruption, and Resumption
    Dario D. Salvucci, Niels, A. Taatgen, Jelmer P. Borst
  • It’s Not What You Know, But Who You Know: A Social Approach to Last-Resort Authentication
    Stuart Schechter, Serge Egelman, Robert W. Reeder
  • Learning How: The Search for Craft Knowledge on the Internet
    Cristen Torrey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, David W. McDonald
  • Who’s Viewed You? The Impact of Feedback in a Mobile Location-Sharing Application
    Janice Y. Tsai, Patrick Gage Kelley, Paul Drielsma, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jason I. Hong, Norman Sadeh
  • Contextual Web History: Using Visual and Contextual Cues to Improve Web Browser History
    Sungjoon Steve Won, Jing Jin, Jason I. Hong
  • Designing for the Self: Making Products that Help People Become the Person they Desire to Be
    John Zimmerman
  • User-created Forms as an Effective Method of Human-agent Communication
    John Zimmerman, Kathryn Rivard, Ian Hargraves, Anthony Tomasic, Ken Mohnkern

Notes: 4

  • Where to Locate Wearable Displays? Reaction Time Performance of Visual Alerts from Tip to Toe
    Chris Harrison, Brian Y Lim, Aubrey Shick, Scott E. Hudson
  • Texture Displays: A Passive Approach to Tactile Presentation
    Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson
  • What’s in Wikipedia? Mapping Topics and Conflict Using Socially Annotated Category Structure
    Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh
  • Reflections of Everyday Activities in Spending Data
    Julia Schwarz, Jennifer Mankoff, H. Scott Matthews

Work in Progress Posters: 6

  • Supporting Intercultural Collaboration with Dynamic Feedback Systems: Preliminary Evidence from a Creative Design Task
    E. Ilana Diamant, Andy Echenique, Brian Y Lim, Gilly Leshed, Susan R. Fussell
  • Intentions: A Game for Classifying Search Query Intent
    Edith Law, Anton Mityagin, Max Chickering
  • How Do People Talk to a Robot? An Analysis of Human-Robot Dialogues in the Real World
    Min Kyung Lee, Maxim Makatchev
  • Tailoring Websites to Increase Contributions to Online Communities
    Min Kyung Lee, Tawanna Dillahunt, Bryan Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut, Sara Kiesler
  • Jadeite: Improving API Documentation Using Usage Information
    Jeffrey Stylos, Zizhuang Yang, Brad A. Myers
  • Designing for Email Response Management
    Sungjoon Steve Won, Laura A. Dabbish

Workshops Organized: 5

  • DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization
    Leah Buechley, Eric Paulos, Daniela K. Rosner, Amanda Williams
  • Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability
    Elaine M. Huang, Eli Blevis, Jennifer Mankoff, Lisa P. Nathan, Bill Tomlinson
  • Human-centered Computing in International Development
    Nithya Sambasivan, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Neesha Kodagoda, Susan M. Dray, John C. Thomas, Ann Light, Kentaro Toyama
  • Social Mediating Technologies: Developing the Research Agenda
    Alistair Sutcliffe, Victor Gonzalez, Robert E. Kraut
  • Building a Unified Framework for the Practice of eXperience Design
    John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, Ilpo Koskinen

Panels: 3

  • Scientometric Analysis of the CHI Proceedings
    danah boyd, Gilbert Cockton, Robert Kraut
  • The Beauty Dilemma
    Bill Buxton, Mary Czerwinski, Jodi Forlizzi
  • Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials and Programmable Reality
    Roel Vertegaal, Ivan Poupyrev, Nimish Bioloria, Seth Goldstein, Hiroshi Ishii, Sachicko Kodama, Pattie Maes, Jun Rekimoto

Student Design Competition Teams: 2

  • Designing a Privacy Label: Assisting Consumer Understanding of Online Privacy Practices
    Patrick Gage Kelley
  • KTE2: An Engine for Kinetic Typography
    Zhiquan Yeo, Scott E. Hudson

Special Interest Groups: 2

  • End User Software Engineering
    Brad A. Myers, Margaret M. Burnett, Susan Wiedenbeck, Andrew J. Ko, Mary Beth Rosson
  • API Usability
    John M. Daughtry, Umer Farooq, Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers

Courses: 3

  • Drawing Ideas: Hand-generated Sketching for Interaction Design
    Mark Baskinger, William Bardel
  • Avoiding “We Can’t Change THAT!”: An Introduction to Usability and Software Architecture
    Bonnie John, Len Bass, Elspeth Golden
  • Developing visual models that can lead to design implications
    Shelley Evenson, Hugh Dubberly, Rick Robinson

Interactivity Showcase: 1

  • Tangible Sketching in 3D with Posey
    Michael Philetus Weller, Mark D. Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Communities: 2

  • Engineering Community: User Experience in Open Source
    Mike Beltzner, Alex Faaborg, Alonso Vera, Jeff Noyes, Becca Scollan, Bonnie John
  • Design Community: More Than Kimchi and Cash: Designing for Cultural Identity
    Kipum Lee, Shelley Evenson, Richard Buchanan

Case Study: 1

  • Leveraging Open-Source Software in the Design and Development Process
    Collin Green, Irene Tollinger, Christian Ratterman, Guy Pryzak, Alex Eiser, Lanie Castro, Alonso Vera

Video Showcase: 1

  • SHIFTR: A User-Directed, Link-Based System for Ad Hoc Sensemaking of Large Heterogeneous Data Collections
    Duen Horng Chau, Aniket Kittur, Christos Faloutsos, Jason I. Hong

Invited Discussion: 1

  • Real Life and Real Work: Real Experiences Negotiating the Competing Needs of Illness, Disability, Children, and Work
    Jennifer Mankoff, Jaime Teevan, Benjamin B. Bederson

Exhibit: 1

  • CMU Design Vignettes and Education Booth

Workshop Papers: 9

  • Workshop: Human-Centered Computing in International Development
    Speech Interfaces in the Context of the Healthline Project
    Jose Gonzalez-Brenes, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Carolyn Rose, Ronald Rosenfeld
  • Workshop: DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization
    How to DIY a Simple Low-Cost VOCs Sensor
    Sunyoung Kim, Eric Paulos
  • Workshop: Sensemaking Workshop 2009
    Supporting Ad Hoc Sensemaking: Integrating Cognitive, HCI, and Data Mining Approaches
    Aniket Kittur, Duen Horng Chau, Jason Hong, Christos Faloutsos
  • Workshop: DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization
    Low-cost Water Sensor to Motivate Sustainable Water Use
    Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos
  • Workshop: Computational Creativity Support 2009
    Visions for Euclase: Ideas for Supporting Creativity through Better Prototyping of Behaviors
    Stephen Oney, Brad Myers, John Zimmerman
  • Workshop: End-User Programming for the Web
    Inferring Reusability of End-User Programmer’s Code from Low-Ceremony Evidence
    Chris Scaffidi, Mary Shaw
  • Workshop: Programming Reality
    Hyperform Specification: Designing with Self-reconfiguring Material
    Michael Weller, Seth Goldstein, Mark D. Gross
  • Workshop: Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability
    Prepare for Descent: Interaction Design in our New Future
    Jeffrey Wong
  • Workshop: End-User Programming for the Web
    The Mashup as a Lens on End-User Programming for the Web
    Jeffrey Wong, Jason Hong

Organizers: 9

  • Mark Baskinger, Co-Chair, Design Community
  • Laura Dabbish, Associate Papers Chair, Behavioral Study and Theory Subcommittee
  • Anind K. Dey, Associate Papers Chair, Technology, Systems, Tools and Infrastructure Subcommittee
  • Jodi Forlizzi, Chair, Design Subcommittee
  • Scott Hudson, Co-Chair, Papers Track
  • Bonnie John, Co-Chair, Doctoral Consortium
  • Bonnie John, Co-Chair, Engineering Community
  • Sara Kiesler, Associate Papers Chair, Interaction Beyond the Individual Subcommittee
  • John Zimmerman, Associate Papers Chair, Design Subcommittee

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